Major Roscommon footpath project to start later this year
Works on the long awaited footpath from Hannon’s Hotel to the Golf Links Road in Roscommon Town are scheduled to begin later this year.
Works on the long awaited footpath from Hannon’s Hotel to the Golf Links Road in Roscommon Town are scheduled to begin later this year.
At a meeting of Roscommon Municipal District, Cllr Marty McDermott asked for an update on the project.
“This is an issue that has been going on a number of years,” he said, added that it needed to be resolved for safety reasons. “People like to walk along there and it is the number one thing that is mentioned. It was the single most important issue in Roscommon Town during the 2019 and 2025 elections," he told the meeting.
Cllr Nigel Dineen said that this was an issue stretching back to 2014, highlighting the work of former councillors, Orla Leyden and Kathleen Shanagher.
MD Co-ordinator Tom McDermott said that the active travel team had almost completed its detailed design for the project, and it was due to go to tender between April and June. It is hoped that construction could start in the final three months of this year.
Cllr McDermott thanked the council for the update. “This is something that the people of Roscommon deserve," he said.
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